optimistic - Story 97169 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wedding cake looked glorious. The frosting, the flowers, the details. Everything looked beautiful. Maya felt a sense of anticipation. She’d been enjoying her new job and her new apartment. Life was good.

She spotted him by the window. She took a deep breath and gave herself a mental checkup. She was doing great. She had been through a lot, but she emerged stronger.

She smiled and gave him a small wave. She then grabbed another piece of cake, with the confidence of someone completely in control. She looked forward to the next few hours.

Emotion: optimistic

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 4.44 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -0.49

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion optimistic. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 optimistic stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the optimistic emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the optimistic vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	0.856
`la`	0.688
`!`	0.601
`enthusi`	0.530
`🤩`	0.515

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.891
`😞`	-0.504
`L`	-0.486
`ness`	-0.478
`それでも`	-0.432